The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Two policemen detailed to watch
the ruins caused by the recent explo.
sion In st. Louis. while walking over
the debris OF the night of the Sd, UNI
earthed an iron semisphere which they
thought vas the remains of a dynamite
bomb, but It proved to be the bulb of
a hanging lamp.
The greather part of the mail of
Governor Oglesby. of Illinois, at
present consists of communications re
speeding the Anarchist question. He
examines all communications, and
''shows a disposition to give the pc.
tit1Ons in behalf of the condemned
men a conscientious consideration"
An examination was made on the 9Th
of the cells occupied by the condemned
Anarchists in the Chicago Jail. and in
that occupied by Lingg a very impor-
tant discovery was made. A small
wooden box was found IN a corner of
the cell. under a pile Of newspapers,
which contained four pieces of gas
pipe filled with what is supposed to be
dynamite, and plugged at both ends.
The bombs have been sent to a chemist
for analysis.
-Wharfmaster Kelleher, who was
indicted on Memphis on the 4th for
embezzlement on % counts, returned
on the 9TH to that city and gave bail
in she sum of $l0O, 600 for his appear
ance.
The Postmaster General has di-
rected the Postmaster at Boston to
withhold payment of money orders and
postal notes sent to the National Gard
Company, doing business IN that city,
and to return to the writer's letters ad-
dressed TO that concern. 1t is stated
that this order IS based upon evidence
showing that the &C ncern is a fraud.
Edward s. Curran, at one time a
Telegraph operator in the New York
Produce Exchange, and John IL.
Scrivener, a young friend Of his from
Georgia, applied for lodgings at a sta
ton house in Washington, on the
evening Of the 9Th. They told "a pitt
full story of inhuman treatment to
which they had been subjected on
board an oyster dredging s!oop for a
month past, and from which they had
just escaped by swimming ashore while
the crew was too drunk to Interfere"
They reached the shore at Hugo river
and walked to Washington, where
they arrived sh0eless. hatless and In
rags. 1.-THE remarkable part of the
story is that they were kidnapped in
Baltimore and put upon the sloop,
which was manned by Captain Will
liam F. Phillip, Mate L. A. Adams
and two Others"
"A telegram from Indianapolis says
typhoid fever is alarmingly prevalent
in Indiana, and it does not seem to I'D
confined to any particular locality.
Physicians think 1t is largely due to
impure water, Is the long-cOntinued
drouth Of last summer caused the pure
water supply to fall short. Many wells
have become dry, and people in War
wick county are paying 25 and 30 cents
a barrel for water for domestic pur-
poses.
-Four tons of molten steel were RUE
into a wei receptacle in the works or
the Springfield Iron Company, near
Springfield, Illinois, early on the MORN
ing of the 9Th, and a tremendous ex-
| plOsion followed. The entire city was
shaken by the conclusion. In the works
about 20 men were injured, three dam
gerous'y.
The daughter and son of J. Schroe-
der, aged four and six years respective
ly, were playing around a bonfire in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, on the
| 4th, when the girl fell into the flames.
Her brother attempted to rescue her,
but failed, and both were burned to
death.
The establishment of the Higgins
Cracker and Confectioner Company, in
Kansas City, Missouri, was burned on
the evening of the 4th. Loss. S100,0 00.
The town of Shady Grove, Livingston
county, Indiana, was entirely destroyed
by FIRE on the 4th. Loss, $4,000.
Twenty. five horses were burned to
death in the basement Of Edward
Riley's two-story stable, In New York,
early on the morning of the 9TH.
John K, Alexander, Q well to do
farmer ear Centreville. Tennessee
IN the morning Of the 4th shot and
MORALLY wounded jackson Blackwell
and his son, and then committed sui
eide. There had been ill-feeling be-
tween them. Isaac Arnold killed his
father-in-law, Thomas Newson, at
Gray's Chapel, Tennessee. On the even.
ing of the 4th. Newson was drunk
and began to whip Mrs. Arnold. when
her husband interfered, and a fight re-
suited, ending in the death Of Newsen.
Arnold says he acted in self-defence.
Mrs. Annie Brickner and Herman
Bach were arrested at S~latington, |
Penna., on the evening of the 4th, by
officers from Allentown, on the charge
of having murdered the woman's hus-
He was recently found dead IN Allen
town, with his throat cut, and was sup
posed to have committed suicide, but
evidence has since developed Indicating
murder.
One new case Of yellow fever and
four deaths were reported in Tampa
on the 9th.
Information was received In New
Orleans on the 9th that four white men
were shot by strikers on the evening OF
the 4th while attending cane carriers,
near Berwick. The Sheriff and a posse
left for the scene. Advlces from the
upper part of Irish Bend and Bayou
C%ypremort are that all is quiet, and
that the laborers are all at work. A
despatch from Pattersonville says:
"An encounter took place on the 9Th
between a Sheriff's posse command
ed by Hon. Daniel Catfray and
the Attakapas Rangers command
ed by Captain Cade, on n side,
and a crowd Of negro strikers.
Several Of the strikers were %apprehen-
ded, and the others were ordered to
dispense, but instead of oheying they
showed a disposition to resist. An en-
gagement ensued. in which several Of
the negroes were killed. Everything
is now quiet"
John Retiring was killed on the 9th
by the caving IN Of 200 tons Of earth
and slate II TIC Robinson quarry. In
Tripoli, Berks county, Penna.
Forest fires are raging in the tim
Der and prairies in the country sur
rounding Centralia, Illinois. The
water supply Is limited and the Illinois
Central Railroad has to run trains for
several miles to get a supply sufficient
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